Robert Davis CAREY

(1878-1937)

Senate Years of Service:

1930-1937

Party:

Republican

CAREY, Robert Davis, (son
of Joseph Maull Carey), a Senator from Wyoming; born in Cheyenne,
Laramie County, Wyo., August 12, 1878; attended the public schools,
and Hill School in Pottstown, Pa.; graduated from Yale University
1900; moved to Careyhurst, Converse County, Wyo., in 1900; engaged
in the raising of livestock and agricultural pursuits; also
interested in banking; member of the Progressive National Committee
for Wyoming 1912-1916; chairman of the Wyoming State Highway
Commission 1917-1918; president of the Wyoming Stock Growers’
Association 1917-1921; Governor of Wyoming 1919-1923; appointed by
President Calvin Coolidge in 1924 as chairman of the agricultural
conference to investigate the agricultural situation in the United
States; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on
November 4, 1930, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Francis E. Warren and on the same day was also elected for the term
commencing March 4, 1931, and served from December 1, 1930, to
January 3, 1937; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936;
resumed agricultural pursuits and ranching; died in Cheyenne, Wyo.,
January 17, 1937; interment in Lakeview Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present